Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Matthias Andree
2005-12-03T22:50:58Z

On Sat, 03 Dec 2005, David Ranson wrote:

> Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> >So was I. And now what? ipfwadm and ipchains should have been removed
> >from 2.6.0 if 2.6.0 was not to support these. That opportunity was
> >missed, the removal wasn't made up for in 2.6.1, so the stuff has to
> >stick until 2.8.0.
> >
> >
> I'm not aware of that policy... maybe I overlooked something?

Everyone does it, except Linux and GDBM.

> I guess our definitions of stable (and the degree of stability
> acceptable) differ.

No need to guess, this is quite obvious.

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Matthias Andree